Comment on From a purely political perspective, if you oppose the US tariffs as a US resident, should you buy or avoid buying products subject to tariffs?

vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• hobovision@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That link is just awful. Very difficult to tell where events are or how big they will be.

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• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  As an individual, you take your purchasing power and can go to that other country and spend your money on services and consumables there, and not bring any goods back. That would be tariff free.

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  • vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Because that’s realistic advice. You have money for be to buy a plane ticket every time I need groceries? Who’s going to fund everyone moving to another country? You got that kind of money? Because I don’t.

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    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yes this is realistic advice. Two scenarios you may not have considered:

      1. Vacation - you can still take this advice when you make occasional vacations which frequently required air travel except choose an international destination instead of a domestic one.

      2. Home geography - A whole bunch of people live right on the boarder with another country and can drive or walk across without needing a plane ticket. Just because this may not apply to you doesn’t mean it doesn’t apply to everyone.

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      • vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Again, you got that kind of money? I live outside DC, so not close to an international border. In fact, most Americans don’t live somewhere they can travel across the border easily. And with the way the government is denying entry to people with the wrong level of melatonin, I don’t think it’s particularly safe advice to tell people to start crossing the border regularly.

        And most people in the US do not fly for vacations. It’s very expensive to fly, and most of us have cars we can take. I’m planning a family vacation later this year to visit my grandparents ~700 miles away. We priced it out and discovered it’s actually cheaper for us to rent an RV and drive than to fly. Flying, especially internationally for a shopping trip, is an extreme luxury for most of us.

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